YOUR Diving Center IN VRSAR
WELCOME
Since 2015, we have been both a sparring partner for experienced divers and pros, as well as a contact point for beginners. Our dive center – under Croatian-Austrian management – is a dive center for recreational and technical divers. We are professionals with a passion for diving and bring decades of experience to our daily work. Quality and safety are our top priorities. We focus on a relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere and respond to the individual needs of our customers – with the goal that our guests feel comfortable with us.
Our dive center is located directly by the sea at the Orsera campsite. We welcome divers of all levels and those who want to try or learn diving. Our services are aimed at individual divers, families, and groups. We offer shore dives several times a day with our car and boat dives with our speedboat. This allows us to reach the dive sites and then our dive center quickly, which helps our guests plan their vacation. The boat is moored directly at the pier – just a few steps from the dive center.
Courses and introductory dives are also part of the program. We teach both beginner and advanced courses according to SDI standards. We tailor the course dates to our clients’ individual vacation schedules.
You are welcome to unload your equipment directly in front of the dive center and leave it with us at the center during your stay. If you would like to borrow equipment from us, we have everything you need, from cylinders (12L aluminum, 12L steel, and 15L steel, all with double valves), Tecline regulators, fins, and much more, available as a complete package or individually. You can also test and order Tecline equipment from us. Tecline-Catalogue
The dive center is equipped for both recreational and technical divers. Air fills are included in all dives. We also fill Nitrox, of course. We mix EAN directly for the specific depth of the planned dive site.
The dive center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from April to the end of October. We are happy to advise you and are available by phone and email, even during the fall and winter months. We speak German, English, and Croatian.
DIVEBASE
Frequently asked questions
We would be happy if you let us know in advance when you would like to start diving with us and what your plans are. Then we can take you on the diver lists and promise you a place on the boat. You are also welcome to come to us spontaneously and plan your dives with us. If you are coming with a whole group, we ask that you announce this in good time.
Before you dive with us, a check-in is necessary. You can do this online in advance: Online-Check-In. . You fill out a data sheet, give us your certification card (brevet) or show it to us electronically and also show us your medical attest from your doctor that you are allowed to dive. If you do not have this available, you can fill out a “Medical Statement” document in our center. We will give the brevet back when you check out. You will receive a box for your equipment. Then you can plan dives and do your first dive with us
You can leave your equipment at the diving center during your stay. There is a box at your disposal in which you can store your fins, regulator, weight, mask, computer etc. Your washed equipment (suit, BCD) can dry outside. Once it’s dry, you can store it in your box. In the evening equipment will be brought inside the diving center.
We wash our equipment in front of our dive center. A barrel of fresh water and a drinking water connection with a hose are available here. We rinse our equipment when it is assembled, then disassemble it and store it in the boxes or hang it outside for drying. We bring the empty, washed tanks back to the diving center in the compressor room. There they will be refilled.
Toilets are available to you. They are located next to our dive center and are cleaned several times a day.
The campsite’s showers and sanitary facilities are available to you. These are located behind the diving center, a minute’s walk away.
There are lockers in the dive center that you can use during the day. You can leave the key to your locker at the dive center during your dive. It´ s protected.
You can rent equipment from us. All diving instruments are available to you, from regulators, computers, compass, BCD/wings, boots, suits, fins and masks to tanks and weights. You can rent the full set for the whole day, half the day or even individual components.
We sell Tecline equipment. We have individual parts for sale in our center. You can also test dive donuts and peanuts, fins, masks, lights, or regulators. We’re happy to advise you and find together your ideal equipment. We’ll order your new Tecline equipment, which will be delivered to the dive center or to your home, depending on the length of your stay. You can find the Tecline catalog here. Orders are accepted year-round.
You can rent 12 liter aluminum bottles, 12 liter steel bottles or 15 liter steel bottles. Our tanks are regularly maintained and checked. We offer air or Nitrox filling in rented and private tanks.
Depending on your diving experience and qualifications, we will decide together which next step is ideal for you so that you are fit for the next dive. After a diving break, it is usually a good idea to take a refresher, where you discuss diving theory and equipment with an instructor, set up the equipment and do a dive in the house bay, including basic skills. You should take about 2-3 hours for this. We will arrange an appointment on site or in advance by telephone or email.
Our instructors are available to provide you with training. You can do various specialties with us (as an SDI diving school, we certify you within the framework of the SDI standards) or simply practice your diving skills. An instructor is available for you. Together you will discuss the diving theory that is relevant to this topic and you will go into the water together in our house bay or at a nearby diving site. We will arrange an appointment on site or in advance by telephone or email.
We offer various courses – from beginners to professionals in recreational diving. Our diving professionals and instructors are at your disposal for this. Depending on the course, you will have to take your time. For example, if you are interested in a beginner’s course (Open Water Diver), we will work together for 3 days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. including a lunch break to make you a qualified diver. If you are interested in a course, we ask you to make an appointment with us in advance. The dates for our courses are primarily adapted individually to the course participants. If you spontaneously decide to take a course, just come to our diving center and we will find a suitable date for you. Diving courses are available for ages 10 and up.
As divers, we obviously want to avoid dehydration. Please make sure you bring enough drinks with you. Neither drinks nor food are available for purchase at the diving center. However, there is a restaurant and a kiosk above the diving center. There is a cafe next to the diving center; In a few minutes walk you will find other bars and restaurants on the coast. Alcohol is only consumed in the evening after diving – and only in small quantities.
Our dives take place in the morning and afternoon. After each dive we return to the diving center. If you do two dives, depending on the dive site, you will have about a 2-hour lunch break. During this time, the campsite infrastructure is available to you. Our times are departure times. Please take about 15 minutes to prepare your equipment for the dive.
A few meters next to the diving center is the Vala bay (max. 6 meters deep). This is where our training, courses and refreshers take place. It is ideal for weight checks and first dives after a break or for testing new equipment. There you have the possibility of seeing seahorses. We will give you a briefing for the bay and you can dive there with a buddy or with a guide or do training with an instructor.
When you rent bottles from our diving center, they are filled with air. If you want to dive with a different gas mixture, we will mix the ideal Nitrox mixture for your dive site. You must be a certified Nitrox diver to dive with EAN. Please inform us in advance so that your filled EAN tank will be ready for analysis before your dive. With Nitrox you can extend no-decompression times or shorten surface breaks; ideal for wreck diving.
If you are not a certified diver but you would like to try diving, you are welcome to book a trydive with us. This is not a course; however, you get a feeling of what diving in the underwater world feels like. You will receive a briefing on diving theory and equipment from an instructor and then dive alone with the instructor from the boat or in our bay. You don’t have to operate the equipment yourself; your instructor does this for you. All you have to do is breathe and enjoy diving. Trydiving is possible for ages 10 and up.
You can pay cash or by card between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
We are there for our guests from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
We would be happy to help you find a suitable apartment. If our partner Gildas Appartement has free appartments available, it is a pleasure for us to book it for you.
DIVES
Frequently asked questions
Our boat dives (islands and wrecks) take place with our Zodiac. We travel to the islands with a maximum of 10 divers and to the wrecks with a maximum of 8 divers. We offer shore dives with our car and boat dives with our speedboat several times a day. This means we can reach the dive sites and then our diving center quickly, which should help our guests plan their vacation. There are always two Triton Diving people present on the boat. Please always follow their instructions and recommendations. We drive about 10-15 minutes to the islands and about 40 minutes to the wrecks. We reach our shore dive site Koversada by car. Depending on the number of divers, we use a trailer to transport the equipment. The journey time is approx. 5 minutes.
The times listed on the diver lists are departure times. Please take approximately 15 minutes to set up your equipment. Shortly before departure you can put on your wetsuit or drysuit and then we ask you to put your equipment on the boat or on the van trailer. Then we start together our trip to the dive site.
In general we take our zodiac (speedboat) to our islands and wrecks and do one dive there. Afterwards we drive back to the diving center. Toilets are available there. If we do dives with our big boat, a toilet is available on the boat.
Please bring the equipment to the boat and make sure your equipment is checked and the tank is closed. The divers put on their suits and sit down in front of their tank. There you can check again whether everything is there. If you have not yet received a briefing at the dive center, you will receive it at the dive site. If you would like to dive with a guide, please let us know in advance. You can of course book a guide. Please follow the briefing exactly and always carry out your descent using the buoy/anchor line. The dive should end directly on the boat on the buoy/anchor line with at least 50 bar residual gas in the bottle. An SMB (diving buoy for ascent) is therefore not necessary. If you cannot find your way back to the boat, please choose the area near the island and not the open sea and use an SMB. Safety is the top principle.
In general we travel to the dive site by speedboat or car and return to the dive center after this dive. When we go with the big boat we do two dives on one trip.
We always diving in the buddy system. Of course you can check in alone. We put together buddy teams whose experience and qualifications are similar or a Triton buddy will dive with you. If you would like to dive with a guide, please let us know in advance. You can book a guide.
We take the Zodiac to the island and wreck diving sites. The divers sit on the edge of the boat. After arriving at the dive site, the briefing takes place (if it has not already taken place in the dive center) and then you can take the equipment on. You get into the water with the reel backwards (air in BCD, regulator in mouth, fins and mask on) and swim directly to the buoy anchor line. As soon as you are ready, you start your descent with your buddy.
The dive ends directly at the boat. Please use the buoy/anchor line to ascend, make a safety stop and end the dive with at least 50 bar remaining gas in your tank. As soon as you reach the surface of the water, pump air into your jacket and swim to the ladder. You hold on to the ladder and take off your fins, which you then hand to the Triton staff with the tip of the fin pointing upwards. Then you climb the ladder into the boat and put your equipment off there.
Despite various weather forecasts, it is only possible to decide shortly before the dive whether the boat will be used or whether the dive site needs to be changed. Therefore, please be at the diving center shortly before the departure time. If the boat dive is canceled, in most cases the shore dive will take place in Koversada, a 5-minute drive with our car.
For boat dives, we require that our guests have carried out equipment or lead tests in advance. The Vala bay is perfect for various checks. When deciding on the number of weightpieces, please think about the factors suit, BCD/wing, buoyancy in the sea (no freshwater), weight of steel and aluminum cylinder and the size of the cylinder. When you need help for your decisions, please let us know.
The feeling of cold is subjective. Equipment and suit are chosen depending on your personal feelings. In our diving areas we rarely dive in shorties. Normally long wetsuits are used (we provide 5mm and 7mm suits for borrowing). Many divers also wear their own drysuits.
The feeling of cold is subjective. Depending on your personal feelings, equipment, suits, hoods or gloves are chosen. The fact that the body loses temperature through the head makes the decision to wear a hood easier for many divers. If gloves are worn to take your hands on wrecks, reefs or animals, they must be avoided. We expect our divers to understand environmental protection, fauna and flora.
DIVESITES
Frequently asked questions
We use the Zodiac to visit both wrecks and islands and have a shore dive in the program. Our dive sites are described in detail on the website. Here you can also see where the dive sites are. The selection of our diving sites is based on weather forecasts, the number and qualifications of the divers present and also on the wishes of our customers.
Temperature, wind, waves, rain showers, sea depth etc. influence visibility in the water. The visibility can change several times in one day. No predictions or guarantees can therefore be given regarding visibility conditions.
Depending on the season, the water temperature also changes. Naturally, the water is cooler at the beginning and end of the season than in midsummer. In addition, depth and weather influence the water temperature. Thermoclines are visible and noticeable at some dive sites. For wreck dives at a depth of around 30 meters you have to expect between 13 and 17 degrees, for dives at around 18 meters around 18-21 degrees; In the Vala bay the water temperature can reach up to 26 degrees in midsummer.
We act on the idea that we are guests underwater and do not take anything with us from the sea. In the interests of nature and environmental protection, we do not attack animals, plants, wrecks or reefs.
In the sea, our divers always have to deal with waves, wind and currents. Special environments will be announced during the briefings. In general, we expect you to love the sea, but also to treat it with respect. This means that we always act in the interests of our own safety and the safety of other divers.